These people they don't make any more. They are legends. They represent freedom and character. God Bless these souls !

1:53 pm April 8, 2013

NO wrote:

Looking at this photo of Thatcher and Reagan and I think:

How absurd that a community leader is bestowed a nobel peace prize by sycophants that take their liberty for granted. How easy it is for most people to take their freedom for granted. How few great leaders this world has. How the forces of evil are arrayed against them. How much the world owes these two individuals.

I bought my children books about Reagan so that they understand the qualities of leadership and the peril the world faces from false liberals that infest our media and schools. I will now find books about Thatcher.

2:08 pm April 8, 2013

John C. wrote:

The contrast between the Reagan/Thatcher approach to the Soviet Union in contrast to how our current administration is facing Iran, Syria, and North Korea is arresting. In Reagan's time, we faced threats by projecting strength and unity. In our time, though, we face regimes like North Korea by WITHDRAWING strength, so as not to provoke. The differences, and likely the outcomes, could not be more different.

2:24 pm April 8, 2013

In Reagan’s time, we faced threats by projecting strength and wrote:

like that time he withdrew all our troops from Beruit after the bombing? tea baggers are clueless

2:24 pm April 8, 2013

How much the world owes these two individuals wrote:

mostly all that debt that Reagan racked up. illegals owe him quite a bit for the amnesty too. tea baggers are clueless

2:26 pm April 8, 2013

likely the outcomes wrote:

any day now the economy is going to turn south and fullfill the wishes of rush limburger and all the clueless tea baggers in America .... any day now ..... obama is going to destroy the country and let the muslim brotherhood take over ... any day now .. right after the death panelz ... lol

2:28 pm April 8, 2013

JC wrote:

They were on tv a lot when I was little and just about learning to watch news with my parents. I didn't know what they were talking about at that time but I saw my parents admired them very much evertime they showed up on the news. Time flies. Thatcher and Reagan will forever be remembered as two great leaders.

2:54 pm April 8, 2013

Martinn wrote:

Typical of Seib to add a snide remark with no explanation that supporters today would not agree with their core beliefs.

3:05 pm April 8, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

@John C

I totally agree. Let's send your children to project strength and unity to North Korea, Iran, Syria and all those other bad places like the good 'ol days.

3:05 pm April 8, 2013

Curtis wrote:

Reagan was 30 years ago and would not even be elected by the nuts in the GOP today. Get over it.

3:21 pm April 8, 2013

@ Anonymous wrote:

Please remind me of how any of our armed forces personnel entered via the draft in the 1980's and how they were forced to "fight" a largely bloodless war of projected strength that kept the USSR at bay. If my sons wanted to volunteer for the armed forces, I would gladly support that decision. I'm sure they, unlike you, wouldn't feel the need to cower behind those more brave than themselves.

4:03 pm April 8, 2013

Gina wrote:

"How Do You Tell a Communist? Well, It’s Someone Who Reads Marx and Lenin. And How Do You Tell an Anti-Communist? It’s Someone Who Understands Marx and Lenin."

"Here's My Strategy on the Cold War: We Win, They Lose."

~Reagan~

"When I Set Foot on American Soil: There Is Something so Positive, Generous, and Open about the People – and Everything Actually Works. I Also Feel, Though, That I Have in a Sense a Share of America.”

~ Margaret Thatcher ~

4:09 pm April 8, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Reagan would not be elected by today's GOP (dominated by the Tea Party). What does that say about the GOP?

4:23 pm April 8, 2013

Rich wrote:

Anonymous,

It says you're not a member of the GOP and that you don't know what the party stands for.

4:44 pm April 8, 2013

you don’t know what the party stands for wrote:

must be why republicans have been leaving the party in droves, or been thrown out by whackjobs. it take real "courage" to throw out the intellectual heavy weights, suffer inglorious election defeats and then proclaim the party is better off than before. better to stand on your principles, like fighting the growing threat of neofascist chicago style gangsterism , right? tea baggers are clueless

5:24 pm April 8, 2013

chris mahoney wrote:

Reagan was a party leader from 1964 until his election as president in 1980. He served two terms as the governor of California. He ran for president in 1968, 1976, 1980 and 1984. If he is a "genial outsider" then who wasn't?

9:39 am April 9, 2013

Archeoloxterix wrote:

Dinosaurs of the cretaceous.

10:08 am April 9, 2013

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1:00 pm April 9, 2013

Puts it straight wrote:

OK, I'm tired of the miss-information: Thatcher was not working class. Her father OWNED two grocery stores. In a market town like Grantham, the largest town in a large rural community, that would make her father decidedly middle class. Humble begginings? I think not.

8:10 am April 10, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

There is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher, Kissinger or any other person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. If anything, it becomes more compelling to commemorate those bad acts upon death as the only antidote against a society erecting a false and jingoistically self-serving history.

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